Amenity issue. Not sure if bug.

[Goresmasher]

Hi I made an account just for this issue. I have 24 amenities with the proper tile upgrades, yet every single city says there are 0 luxuries. Anyone know why? I don't have any trade deals presently.

 

[Leyrann]

As in, it shows 0 in the bottom right of the screen? That's because it's the final count, which adds all amenities from luxeries, entertainment districts and other sources and then substracts what the city needs plus any war weariness there might be.

Also, best to provide a screenshot in a case like this to make it easier for people to understand what the problem is.

 

[Goresmasher]

According to stats, it's not war weariness.

 

[Leyrann]

Maybe you can just PrtSc (Print Screen) then ctrl+v to Paint and upload that? I want to see all that there's to see when you're in a city screen.

 

[Goresmasher]

Maybe you can just PrtSc (Print Screen) then ctrl+v to Paint and upload that? I want to see all that there's to see when you're in a city screen.

 

[Leyrann]

Oh wait, you're using CQUI. That's why I didn't understand the screenshot.

Looks like a bug indeed. Can you also post a screenshot of the "City Status" tab in "Reports" at the top of your screen? I wanna see the amenity balance of all cities together... Oh, and maybe you can post a screenshot of the "Resources" tab in "Reports" too, after using "Collapse all"?

 

[Goresmasher]

Oh wait, you're using CQUI. That's why I didn't understand the screenshot.

Looks like a bug indeed. Can you also post a screenshot of the "City Status" tab in "Reports" at the top of your screen? I wanna see the amenity balance of all cities together... Oh, and maybe you can post a screenshot of the "Resources" tab in "Reports" too, after using "Collapse all"?

The resource list is too long, even collapsed. Here's city status:

 

[SxSnts9]

I could be wrong, but it looks like you have a high amount of the same luxuries. As in you have numerous diamonds and cocoa and furs...but the game only counts unique luxuries for amenities. So even if you have 10 diamond mines active, it will only provide 1 amenity to 4 cities. The other 9 copies are basically trade fodder. This still could be a bug though since it's showing 0 luxury in the screenshot. How many cities do you have vs. how many unique luxuries is the real question. In your resources reports it will tell you how many luxuries are actually being used as an amenity for a city.

 

[Browd]

Based on what I can glean from the top of the screen, you have 9 unique luxuries, which would provide 36 amenities across your 17 cities, and your cities are receiving a total of 46 amenities (36 from luxuries, plus 1 from palace, and presumably 9 others from some combination of entertainment and policies).

Since your cities need a total of 64 amenities (18 more than the 46 that are available) and your larger cities need as many as 4 or 5 amenities, it's unsurprising that your smallest city (Kazan, with 5 pop) doesn't get allocated any amenities from luxuries. The game strives to allocate luxuries in such as way as to make your cities as equally happy or unhappy as possible. So, you won't usually see a breakdown where some cities are full of amenities and others are 2 or 3 below the level required to avoid discontent. A situation (as here) where all of your cities are (more or less) equally content or discontent is what the game aims for.

 

[Goresmasher]

I could be wrong, but it looks like you have a high amount of the same luxuries. As in you have numerous diamonds and cocoa and furs...but the game only counts unique luxuries for amenities. So even if you have 10 diamond mines active, it will only provide 1 amenity to 4 cities. The other 9 copies are basically trade fodder. This still could be a bug though since it's showing 0 luxury in the screenshot. How many cities do you have vs. how many unique luxuries is the real question. In your resources reports it will tell you how many luxuries are actually being used as an amenity for a city.

If that's the case, then problem solved. I have tons of diamonds.

 

[Esperr]

Did they rebalance amenities in one of the patches? It seems like prior to the first patch I never raised citys and would have 12-20 by t100 with little to no issues but now it feels like around 8 or 9 im getting swamped with unhappiness.

 

[joncnunn]

Did they rebalance amenities in one of the patches? It seems like prior to the first patch I never raised citys and would have 12-20 by t100 with little to no issues but now it feels like around 8 or 9 im getting swamped with unhappiness.

The rules regarding luxaries haven't changed in any patches.
However, if you were building entertainment complexes; the zoos stopped stacking with the Winter patch at the same time that Factories stopped doing this.

You might also have gotten more efficient in the past few months at keeping cities from having their growth stopped by being the housing capacity though. Or perhaps been less lucky becoming and staying allies with city states that had luxuries you don't have if you are playing at a higher difficulty level than then.

 

[Esperr]

The rules regarding luxaries haven't changed in any patches.
However, if you were building entertainment complexes; the zoos stopped stacking with the Winter patch at the same time that Factories stopped doing this.

You might also have gotten more efficient in the past few months at keeping cities from having their growth stopped by being the housing capacity though. Or perhaps been less lucky becoming and staying allies with city states that had luxuries you don't have if you are playing at a higher difficulty level than then.

No, difficulty hasnt changed since like the third game. I think it might just be housing efficiency like you said, I tend to naturally not let them ever cap anymore. Ive rarely had games ever get to zoo's though, even when it first came out.